TSGL: virus

[Eric and Merna Bitter]

1.    Have you tried System Restore?  (Was it enabled?  If so, has the
virus/Trojan rendered it useless?)

2.    A Google search for     "win32.virtob.3.gen"     produced twenty-six
(26) results at
http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&rls=IRFA,IRFA:2007-49,IRFA:en&q=+w
in32.virtob.3.gen.  These include various non-English ones, only some of
which had the Google "Translate this page" link.  (If you have had occasion
to use Google's translation tool, you will appreciate the old expression,
"It loses something in the translation.")  The English ones appeared to be
mainly statistical ones.

3.    Googling for simply      "virtob"        produced 7,370 results at
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=IRFA,IRFA:2007-
49,IRFA:en&q=%22virtob%22

Checking some of the thirty results on my page, I found others who were
advised to allow Bitdefender and/or Avast to take action but where such
action could not go beyond identification and removal was not accomplished.
However, from the results I checked, perhaps one or more of the following
might assist you:

http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000070-en--Win32.Virtob.Gen.html
(discovered 2006.04.30)
http://www.bitdefender.com/VIRUS-1000163-en--Win32.Virtob.  (discovered
2007.03.29)

http://www.hm2k.com/posts/win32-virtob-virut-removal

http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=28979
where the problem included installation HijackThis (version 2.0.2 from
TrendMicro) and the service that H. Davis referred to below
(His link is to an older version -- Googling     "HijackThis" + "download"
produces a number of sites which have the latest version, including
TrendMicro.)

http://www.antiviruses123.com/antivirus/antivirus_736.html
and forums at    http://help.antiviruses123.com/

Good luck.

Merna


----- Original Message -----
From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: virus


Gene,

Take a look at HijackThis <http://majorgeeks.com/download3155.html>. I'm
not sure what its current state is but a couple of years ago you could
run HijackThis and it would produce a log file that you would post on
one of several forums and knowledge folks would help you decipher it and
instruct you how to resolve your problem.

I've never taken advantage of the service myself but have read lots of
forums where users were being lead through the process. My impression is
that most of the helpful folks know what they are doing. You're mileage
may vary of course.

There is also the possibility that it's a false positive. Is the thing
you've detected a real virus? Have you looked it up on the Symantec or
McAfee sites? Also, check the sites of the AV programs that detect it
and see if there's any discussion on their forums of how to get rid of
it or false positives.

Good luck,

H Davis

gene wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have got a big problem that i hope someone can possibly help me with.
> I scanned my computer with bit defender anti virus that isn't so much
> anti.It found a virus called, win32.virtob.3.gen, and said it
> couldn't get rid of it.
> I have since tried avg, nod32, trend micro and dr. web, two never
> heard of it, one seen it but couldn't get rid of it and the last one
> found it and said to check around to see if i could find something
> else to delete it.
> I don't know what to do next to reformatting windows xp. and I'd
> rather not do that.
> Appreciate any help you can give me,
> Gene
>
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Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1502 - Release Date: 2008-06-13
7:25 PM